Edward Elgar
‘Nimrod’, from the Enigma Variations Op.36
Premiered in London, 19 June, 1899
Arranged by Elizabeth Anderson for 8-part choir
Premiered in Melbourne, 24 June, 2018
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Locus iste, by Anton Bruckner
AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER CHOIR
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
This work is on the program for the Australian Chamber Choir’s next concert: Great Romantic Voices on 13 and 21 June 2026.
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In 2024, we embarked on the most ambitious project of the ACC’s 19-year history. As part of our European concert tour that year, we visited Venice to present the modern premiere performance of a 300-year-old Cantata by Agatha della Pietà, who lived at the Venice orphanage where Vivaldi taught. Our documentary, entitled Agatha’s Story, showcasing the ACC on tour in Germany and culminating in Venice, will air on SBS television in August and will then become a part of the international film festival circuit. The documentary, made possible by the generosity of our donors, introduces audiences all over the world to the only surviving work composed by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà – an important new piece of music history, with the ACC front and centre.
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Bogoroditse Dyevo, by Sergei Rachmaninov
ACC8, directed by Douglas Lawrence
This Ave Maria is sung in Old Church Slavonic, the language of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions. The setting, by Sergei Rachmaninov comes from his ‘All Night Vigil’, Op.36.
Filmed live at Mandeville Hall Toorak, 28 June 2020,
video courtesy of Australian Digital Concert Hall
Hear this divine music live, as part of the ACC’s forthcoming Great Romantic Voices program.
Sacred, by Bill Neidjie and Tom Henry
Text by Bill Neidjie OAM
Sacred, from ‘Kakadu Man’
Musical setting by Tom Henry
Filmed live in concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
16 July 2019
Video by Wright Medea
Post production by Filmoo
This and other movements from ‘Kakadu Man’ can be heard on the CD, Gold.
Power in Stillness, by Christine McCombe
In July 2024, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This performance was presented by the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by this new work by Christine McCombe.
Power in Stillness was commissioned by the ACC, and premiered in 2022. In writing this work, Christine was inspired by the concept of Dadirri. Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, artist, tribal elder and Principal of St Francis Xavier School, Daly River in Australia’s far north, explains that the word, from the Ngan’gikurunggurr language, describes “deep listening and silent awareness”.
Christine McCombe’s Power in Stillness is structured to focus the audience’s attention on the silences within the music. The work features on the ACC’s 2024 CD release, Gold.
Ego flos campi, by Raffaella Aleotti
When Raffaella Aleotti published her Sacred Songs in Venice in 1593, she became the first female composer to publish a collection of sacred music.
Ego flos campi
Australian Chamber Choir directed by Elizabeth Anderson
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park on Sunday 17 August 2025
Watch the full Renaissance Requiem concert (including Gordon Kerry’s new Requiem) via Australian Digital Concert Hall.
Alchemy, by Gordon Kerry
This time last year, the Australian Chamber Choir gave eleven performances in Europe. This video was filmed at the Swiss international festival known as ‘Ceresio Estate’, a series of summer concerts in churches around Lake Lugano. European Audiences were fascinated by the Australian works on the program, which included this setting of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXXIII, by Gordon Kerry.
Alchemy is the first track on the 2025 CD release, Gold.
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from the Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, by Palestrina
Agnus Dei II (excerpt), from the Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Recorded live in concert by Move Records, 24 November, 2019
This work appears on the ACC’s Keys to Heaven CD
Images shown are of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome (the favourite church of the late Pope Francis, and now his resting place), where Palestrina sang from the age of eleven as a choir boy and was director of the choir from 1551 to ’66.
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, by Michael Praetorius
This work features in our forthcoming Baroque Christmas program
This work can also be found on our Baroque Christmas CD
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move Records
Lauda Jerusalem, by Claudio Monteverdi
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live on location in Venice, at the Basilica of St Mark’s 14/7/24, at Palazzo Pisani 16/7/24 and in Lugano at Ceresio Estate (Ceresio Summer festival) 17/7/24.
Sound – Simone Corelli 16/7/24; Cameras – Francesca Corelli, Simone Corelli, Bruce Inglis, Rebecca Lena.
Production Simone Corelli.
This work was presented live as a part of the ACC’s Agatha in Vivaldi’s Venice program.
Ukrainian Carol of the Bells – Shchedryk
This traditional Ukrainian new year’s carol, arranged by Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921), is sung by the ACC in the original unaccompanied Ukrainian language version. Click on the ‘CC’ button beneath the video for English subtitles. The text of the original ‘Shchedryk’ tells of a little swallow flying into a house and promising its owner good things in the new year. This carol became popular in the USA when the Ukrainian National Chorus toured there in 1922. English language lyrics were subsequently added by American composer Peter Wilhousky. (The text bore no relation to the original words, and repurposed the song as a Christmas carol). With a new title, ‘Ukranian Carol of the Bells’, the work was recorded in over 150 versions. It was incorporated into a number of Hollywood soundtracks, most notably with an orchestration supplied by John Williams for the 1990 motion picture, ‘Home Alone’. In its Ukrainian language version, the carol serves as a reminder to humankind to remain optimistic in the face of adversity.
Triste Noel, by Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson (1870–1946). Famous for her novel The Getting of Wisdom, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson was born in Melbourne in 1870. During and after her period of study at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music, she was a prolific composer. This work sets a poem by the Massachusetts-based Louise Imogen Guiney.
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, 8 December 2024, by 5stream.
Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem, by Michael Praetorius
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo, Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move Records
Singt und klingt, by Michael Praetorius
This cheeky piece by Praetorius features in our Baroque Christmas program and on the CD of the same name.
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Australian Chamber Choir
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert, 9 December 2018
at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo. Sound by Move records
Image: Fra Angelico, Nativity (1440-41), fresco, St Mark’s Monastery, Florence
Vom Himmel hoch – From heaven on high, by Martin Luther
Words and melody attributed to Martin Luther
Harmonised by Adam Gumpelzhaimer
Directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park
by Filmoo on Sunday 9 December 2018. Sound by Move records
Halleluja by Andreas Hammerschmidt
Australian Chamber Choir
directed by Douglas Lawrence
Filmed live in concert
December, 2018
by Filmoo